Line-conductor support.



W. D. KYLE.

LINE CONDUCTOR SUPPORT` APPLlcATloN FILED 00123. 191e.

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WILLIAM D. KYLE, or MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin LINE-CONDUCTOR SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.) p Patented Oct, 29, 1918n Application med october 23, 1916. se'riai No. 127,104.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, IVILLIAM y a citizen of the United States, and resideV t of Milwaukee, in theV county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsimhave invented new and useful Improvements in Line-Conductor Supports, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which are .a part of this specification.

The invention relates to line conductor supports.

The invention is more particularly designed to provide a line insulator and support for the same.

Formerly it has been the practice to fix- `edly secure the insulator to an attaching bracket, but it frequently happens that when a line conductor is strung from a pole to the wallof a house that an attaching means cannot be put up squarely in line with the wall of the house owing to the direction in which the line is coming from the pole and it is necessary to incline the attaching bracket and the insulator with respect to the wall of the house, a thing which is not always easy to do. To obviate this diiiiculty I 'have provided a combined insulator and supporting When the attaching bracket is put up on the side of a house the insulator may adjust itself to the direction from which the line is coming from the pole, this being made possible through a 'universal joint connection between the insulator and the bracket, thus permittingzthe bracket to be put up on the side of a house'or wall without any special reference to the position of the insulator.

The invention is further designed to provide an insulator with a' bail or equivalent part which can be readily attached to its the bracket is put up. Y

The invention further consists of the several featureshereinafter set forth nand more defined by claim at'the conclusion hereof.'v

In the drawings: Figure A1 is a plan View of the device, parts being broken away;

Fig. 2l is a side View of the device; ,-Fig. 3 is a', vsectionv taken on the line 3 3 l of Fig. 1; f

Eig. 4 is a 'sectional "View 'of moaned form of attaching bracket;

D. KYLE Fig. 5 is a sectional view of another modified forni of attaching bracket;

The device consists of an insulator 6, attaching bracket 7, and a universal joint connection between said insulator and said bracket.

l The inslilator may be of any kind, the one in the drawing being shown as a simple form of spool insulator 6 having a peripheral groove 8 thereinhand a central transverse hole or aperture In tigs. 1 to 3 inclusive \the bracket 7 consists of a steel screw 10\fbr attaching the bracket to a liked support and about which the body'of the bracket is cast; The body of the bracket consists of a broad, flat base 11, an intermediate square-shaped'p'ortion 12 and a bendable hook 13. To efliciently secure the screw 10 in the v.bodypithe bracket, said screw is provided with a peripheral groove 14 into which a portion-of the metal forming the-bracket flows when the same is cast onto the screw. The intermediate portion 12 of thev bracket is made squareshaped, as shown in Fig. 3, to permitl of the use of a wrench to screw the bracket into place on the liXed support.

In Fig. 4 -tl1e bracket consists of a steel screw 15 having a bendable hooked end 16 and a cast metal portion 18 is cast about the screw 16'to form a broad, flat base 19 and a square-shaped portion 20 similar to portion 12 previously described. The screw 15 is also provided with a peripheral groove 21 into which a portion of the metal forming the cast part 18 -flows tosecure a firm union `between the steel screw 15 and the cast metal portion.

In Fig.- 5l the bracket 7 consists of an eye-bolt 22 having 'a pointed screw-shaped end 23 for screwing it into a iXed support and a cast metal portion 24 cast about the eyebolt 'and provided with a broad, flat base 25 anda square-shaped` portion 26 similar to l,theportion' 121;.previously described. The -gioove 27 .is similar to the'groove 11 and isfprovided in theeye-bolt for a similar-purpose ofv securing a closel union be- I tween the steel and-the cast metal part.

The universal joint connection between the bracket 7 and the insulator 6 consists of al wire bail 28 which is hooked on to either the hooks 13 and 1-6 or is passed through the eye 29'ofthe eye-bolt 22, and the ends 30 of said bail arerbent upon themselves for receiving a bolt 31 which passes through the hole 9 vin the insulator 6, the ends of the bail being secured betiveen the head of the bolt and the nut 82. Through the agenc)v of the bail 28 loosely connected to the bracket 7 the insulator 6 may be adjusted at any desiredangle with respect to the attaching bracket 7.

lllith the construction of bracket above described it will be noted that the broad, flat base takes the strain ot'f the screw on the side pull and the hook or eye is in line with the screw on the straight pull so that the tensional pull is resisted by the tension strength otl the bracket all the metal ot' which is in tension.

lt vvillalso be noted in connection with the eye-bolt construction that the eye-bolt cannot be turned no matter in What position the insulator may be adjusted.

The invention thus exemplifies a simple and etlicient means for combining an insulator with a readilyY attachable and simply constructed bracket u'hereluv the insulator may be self-adjusted with respect 'to said bracket to facilitate putting up the line conductor.

`What l claiin as my invention is ln a line conductor support, the combination of a bracket having a base a hooked end and a screw integral with the bracket and extendingY outwardly iroin the base, an insulator having a groove therein formingl a line guide. a bail having` c ved ends, a bolt passing through said eyed ends and the insulator to secure the insulator to the bail, the intermediate portion of the bail being loosely 'mounted in the hooked end ot the bracket.

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